Assassinations

1865 April 14th. U.S., Washington D.C. U.S. President Abraham Lincoln

1881 July 2th. U.S., Washington D.C. U.S. President James A. Garfield

1901 September 6th. U.S., New York, Buffalo: U.S. President William Mc Kinley

1914 June 28th Bosnia, Sarajevo: Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria - Hungary

1963 November 22rd. U.S., Dallas. U.S. President John F. Kennedy

1968 April 4th. U.S., Tennessee, Memphis: Rev. Martin Luther King

1968 June 5th U.S.,Los Angeles: Senator Robert F. Kennedy

1978 May 16th. Italy, Rome: Prime Minister Aldo Moro was kidnapped by the Red Brigades and finally killed after unsuccesful negotians over the release of left-wing prisoners.

1981 October 6th. Egypt, Cairo: President Anwar al - Sadat

1984 October 31th. India, New Delhi: Prime Minister Indira Ghandhi

1986 February 28th Sweden, Stockholm: Prime Minister Olaf Palme

1991 May 21st. - India, near Madras: Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi

1995 November 4th. Israel, Tel Aviv: Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin

2001 June 1st. Nepal, Kathmandu: in a family dispute the Crown Prince shot 14 members of the royal family (his parents, aunts, and siblings) and himself; 8 people, including the King of Nepal, died.

2003 March 12th. - Yugoslavia, Belgrade: Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic

2003 September 10th. - Sweden, Stockholm: 46-year-old Minister for Foreign Affairs Anna Lindh died on the early morning of September 11, 2003, following a knife attack at the Nordiska Kompaniet department store just after 4 pm in the afternoon of September 10. She was stabbed in the chest, stomach and arms. Following the assault she was rushed to the Karolinska Hospital where she underwent surgery for over nine hours. Reportedly she suffered copious internal bleeding, her liver was seriously damaged, and her medical situation remained grave, even though at first it appeared to have improved after the surgery. One hour after concluding the initial nine-hour surgery, complications forced resumption of surgery. At 5.29am local time she was pronounced dead.